Investors pay big for .xxx names

October 10, 2011|By Diane C. Lade, Sun Sentinel

Website names ending in .xxx have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars during the first month the domain was opened to select buyers. And one netted a record price for ICM Registry of Jupiter, creator of the latest Internet prefix to join the ranks of .edu, .com and .org

Corbin Fisher, a leading gay production studio, paid ICM $500,000 for the domain name Gay.xxx, ICM officials said Monday. It was the highest domain price ever paid in a pre-public sale, according to ICM, which fought for more than a decade to get .xxx approved by regulators.